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Triple A Indorsement: The new Bette Davis drama magic in Warner’s “THE CORN IS GREEN.” Louis Sobol
Excellent . . . all to the good . . . Bette Davis gives a notable performance; a sound and eloquent one; a charming, simple and forceful one, and more vital than any she has offered in several seasons. Bact
A distinguished picture . . . Lives up to all the advance expectations . .. May be counted as one more triumph for Bette Davis, one more fine picture for Irving Rapper and a brilliant screen debut for John Dall . . . Belongs with Bette Davis’ top pictures. Sin :
A fine play has passed through the WB studio and become a polished motion
picture .. . Bette Davis gives a sharp, vital interpretation . . . gives dignity to the central role among an excellent supporting cast . . . A notable item of film fare; a full, ripe ear of emotion and enjoyment. Bend tebune
A superfine production . .. Both beautiful and good . . . Don’t miss it. PM
Bette Davis scores .. . This is a ‘“‘must’” for Davis fans; fine cinema for all.
Mirror Recommended wholeheartedly . .. WB’s screen version is to be admired for its honesty of theme, high class production and intelligence of performance by Bette Davis. Maw/s
Should take its place on the list of Bette Davis’ major successes at the boxoffice ...Ithas all the elements of its predecessors . . . Should stay a long time at the
Hollywood Theatre. World Telegram
Distinguishd motion picture . . . Vital and impressive production.
Hollywood Reporter
Solid dramatic entertainment . . . Bette Davis essays the leading role with un-
qualified success .. . Ripe for big grosses. Independent
Fine drama and Bette Davis is fine in it . . . Effective . . . well produced...
directed with understanding and feeling by Irving Rapper . . . Superior cast. M.P. Daily
Emotionally moving . .. a good deal of humor . . . Cast with excellent performers
_.. The name of Bette Davis and the success of the play on Broadway should assure it an audience. M.-P. Herald
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As the gallant schoolmistress who wages a courageous battle fore fesbetsii
Welsh ignorance and poverty at the turn of the century, Bette Davis
plays the most dramatic role of her highly dramatic film career in Warners’ “The Corn Is Green,” currently at the Strand Theatre.
Bette Davis Returns to Screen In Warners ‘The Corn Is Green’
Current Characterization at Strand v1 Rox) at Of ab 012) slot a-\-) 0.40) (<n dee BY c-)
Periodically, Bette Davis returns to a more or less normal charac-
terization on the screen—Such-a—-
role is her current one in War- ners “The Corn Is Green,” now playing at the Strand. She plays
Miss’ Moffat, a slightly old-maid-
ish, highly intelligent, thoroughly respectable Englishwoman who devotes her talents and her mod- est inheritance to the betterment of the children of a Welsh coal mining town.
Before this role Miss Davis had played the giddy, selfish, spoiled wife of the patient “Mr. Skeffing- ton,” a woman whose redemption was delayed by the scenarists un- til the last few feet of the final reel. In such roles Bette invaria- bly wins new admirers for her work, and new enemies for her characterizations.
Varies Roles Regularly
Throughout her considerable career in Warner Bros.’ pictures, Bette has managed quite regu- larly to vary her roles as to type and amount of audience sympathy deserved and won.
She began with the Warner studio as the sleek young blonde charmer whom George Arliss wished to marry in “The Man Who Played God.” No hint of the lady’s power with an unpleasant role-was hinted in this appearance.
She remained pleasant — and convincing in her pleasantness — with Barbara Stanwyck in “So Big,’ with Ruth Chatterton in “The Rich Are Always With Us,” and one or two repeat roles oppo- site George Arliss.
Bette’s first intimation on the screen that she could play roles of somewhat _ less-than-peffect women came in 1934 when she appeared for Warner Bros. in “Fog Over Frisco,” and in “Of Human Bondage.”
In these two pictures Bette went downhill, in beauty as well
as morals, and made a_ screen —
name for herself which has made her a marked young woman in motion pictures ever since.
Winner of Two “Oscars”
The two roles for which she won the coveted Academy Awards and received her “Oscars” were both roles which left much to be desired of Bette as a woman but which proved again that she is a consummate artist when really put to the test.
The awards were hers for “Dan- gerous,’ in which she appeared as an unmanageable actress who came to no good end and “Jeze- bel” which showed her as a flirta- tious woman without heart or
~ conscience.
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But between and among these roles were other characterizations, such as those in “Dark Victory,” “Juarez,” “The Old Maid,” “The Sisters” and “Old Acquaintance,” in each of which Bette returned to normal and her natural good breeding.
Actress Ranks High
These swift changes make Bette Davis a triple threat in any thea- tre where every audience knows in advance that it is sure to be entertained but is uncertain, un- til the close of the final reel, whether it will come out of the theatre hating or loving Bette Davis.
In Bette’s current film, “The Corn Is Green,” she is supported by Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams and two promising young screen newcomers, John Dall and Joan Lorring. The film was adapted from Emlyn Williams’ successful stage play by the same name.
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The Cast
Miss Moffat The Squire Mr. Jones Mrs. Watty Miss Ronberry
15) Om Os i Dee BY VA bes Nigel Bruce Rhys Williams Rosalind Ivan Mildred Dunnock Arthur Shields Gwenyth Hughes Thomas Louden Billy Roy Llewellyn Powell Brandon Hurst We PRs ee Tony Ellis
Giyn--Phomas. : Elliott Dare John Owen Leslie Vincent EIGE P AR os ee Robert Cherry Ralph Cathey
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RE FOES ee Gene Ross Rhys Norman Robert Regent Jack Owen
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JOHN DALL and JOAN LORRING (Bessie Watty )
Production
Produced by Jack Chertok. Directed by Irving Rapper. Screen Play by Casey Robinson and Frank Cavett; From the Stage Play by Emlyn Williams; Produced by Herman Shumlin. Photographed by Sol Polito, A.S.G. Art Director, Carl Jules Wey!Sound by Robert B*Lee“Pim Editor, Frederick Richards. Montages by James Leicester. Set Deco- rations. by Fred M. MacLean. Technical Advisor, Rhys Williams. Wardrobe by Orry-Kelly. Makeup Artist, Pere Westmore. Orchestral Arrangements by Hugo Friedhofer; Music by Max Steiner; Musical Director, Leo F. Forbstein. Assistant Director, Robert Vreeland. Unit
Manager, Eric Stacey. The Story
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Miss Moffat (Bette Davis) comes from London to the small village of Glensarno, Wales, to take up residence in a house she has recently inherited. With her, she brings her cockney housekeeper, Mrs. Watty (Rosalind Ivan), and Mrs. Watty’s brat-like youngster, Bessie (Joan Lorring).
Appalled by the ignorance and poverty of the local inhabitants who send their children to work in the mines at the age of ten, Miss Moffat determines to launch an educational program to stamp out illiteracy in the village. She turns her own house into a schoolroom and engages a clerk, Mr. Jones (Rhys Williams) and an idle gentlewoman (Mildred Dunnock) as associate teachers.
Miss Moffat’s efforts to expand her school are sabotaged by the local Squire (Nigel Bruce) and she is ready to admit defeat when she dis- covers among her pupils a gifted miner, Morgan Evans (John Dall). The thought of properly guiding a potential genius spurs her on in her self-appointed mission. In two years Morgan Evans has progressed so rapidly that Miss Moffat feels he is eligible to apply for a scholarship at Oxford. The boy, however, rebelling against her constant and seem- ingly impersonal drive, desperately turns to the cockney girl, Bessie Watty, in a sudden romantic interlude.
Miss Moffat, afraid of the effect Bessie’s announcement of impend- ing motherhood will have on Morgan Evans, bribes Bessie to leave the village and not say anything to him about the child.
Evans takes first place in the scholarship competition and, jubilant, is about to leave for Oxford when he learns that Bessie has borne his child. He decides he must marry her, return to the mines and forget the opportunity to pursue further education.
Miss Moffat, however, is violently opposed to having Morgan squander his brilliant future on Bessie, who admits she does not love him and is only interested in having her child taken off her hands. The- determined schoolmistress finally convinces Evans he must take advan- tage of the greatest opportunity ever granted a mining boy and go on to Oxford. She solves the problem of the child by offering to adopt Morgan’s son. As Morgan Evans departs, Miss Moffat is already mak- ing plans to guide his son, saying to herself, “You mustn’t be clumsy this time . . . you mustn’t be clumsy.”
(Running Time: 114 Minutes)
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